I’ve just got back from my second viewing, and I too was able to enjoy it a lot more this time. I think going into it initailly with such a clear idea of what I had expected and hoped would happen hindered my enjoyment. Going in without those feelings meant I could appreciate the twists and turns more.

That being said some of my initial cocerns have only been consolidated.

I can understand why Holdo wouldn’t initially tell Poe the plan if she didn’t trust him, but once he started risking lives and mutinying it makes no sense to me that she would still refuse to inform him of plan. It just feels like such contrived drama and poor writing, and I’m hoping it will be possible to remedy this somewhat with a fan edit.

There were many comedic moments that I feel could be removed, as well as some clunky dialogue, though this appears to be something everone else is already thinking.

The crawl seemed a little off to me as well, the third paragraph starting with “But” didn’t seem right. I plan on messing around with moving the ending of TFA to the start of this film to see how that could work.